Poplin, G. S., Pollack, K. M., Griffin, S., Day-Nash, V., Peate, W. F., Nied, E., Gulotta, J., & Burgess, J. L. (2015). Establishing a proactive safety and health risk management system in the fire service. BMC public health, 15, 407.
Formalized risk management (RM) is an internationally accepted process for reducing hazards in the workplace, with defined steps including hazard scoping, risk assessment, and implementation of controls, all within an iterative process. While required for all industry in the European Union and widely used elsewhere, the United States maintains a compliance-based regulatory structure, rather than one based on systematic, risk-based methodologies. Firefighting is a hazardous profession, with high injury, illness, and fatality rates compared with other occupations, and implementation of RM programs has the potential to greatly improve firefighter safety and health; however, no descriptions of RM implementation are in the peer-reviewed literature for the North American fire service.
Hysong, T. A., Burgess, J. L., Cebrián Garcia, M. E., & O'Rourke, M. K. (2003). House dust and inorganic urinary arsenic in two Arizona mining towns. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 13(3), 211-218.
Burgess, J. L., Nanson, C. J., Hysong, T. A., Gerkin, R., Witten, M. L., & Lantz, R. C. (2002). Rapid decline in sputum IL-10 concentration following occupational smoke exposure. Inhalation Toxicology, 14(2), 133-140.
BIO5 Collaborators
Jefferey L Burgess, Clark Lantz
Burgess, J. L., Kovalchick, D. F., Harter, L., Kyes, K. B., & Thompson, J. N. (2000). Hazardous materials events: An industrial comparison. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 42(5), 546-553.
Andrew, A. S., Burgess, J. L., Meza, M. M., Demidenko, E., Waugh, M. G., Hamilton, J. W., & Karagas, M. R. (2006). Arsenic exposure is associated with decreased DNA repair in vitro and in individuals exposed to drinking water arsenic. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(8), 1193-1198.